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TIL Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, is related to John Harington, the man who invented the first flushable toilet.

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W7rYX TIL In 1942 actor Lionel Atwill was barred from working in Hollywood after being involved in a sex scandal. He pled guilty to perjury for not disclosing he had shown pornographic films at his house to a group of friends. He would later get his sentence overturned.
P7GE TIL that Fox originally wanted to make Matt Groening’s “Life in Hell” into an animated series, but Groening didn’t want to lose his rights to it, so he said he had “this other family, called the Simpsons,” and then he proceeded to draw figures on a napkin that he made up on the spot.
rRl01 TIL in 2004, Audi designed a fake car specifically for the Will Smith movie iRobot. This eventually inspired the birth of the Audi R8
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k9aE TIL Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on MASH) has a deformed left hand. He hid it throughout his entire run on the series because it would have made Radar unfit for military duty. (pic in comments)